When Qiu Chika, Pue, and other native powerhouses began to act, Luo Feng, the Cangjin King, and the Zizhong King—the three powerhouses—fell into a frenzied state.
“Escape, escape, escape!” Luo Feng’s wings trembled like a ghost, continuously flying and turning through the winding corridors.
“This Cangjin King is too powerful!”
“The limit of a King—this is the limit of a King. His strength far surpasses the peak of a King. Even if the Night Chen King self-destructs, he cannot harm him.” Luo Feng was frantic with anxiety. “Even my combined Bug Clan King Legion is no match for him. If I engage him directly, he could effortlessly annihilate my Earthling Original Body by expending just a fraction of his immortal divine power. Once my Earthling Original Body is destroyed, it will spell disaster. The corridor space within the Sacrificial Tower is too confined; the Golden-Horned Beast avatar simply cannot emerge to fight!”
The Golden-Horned Beast avatar is far more powerful than the Earthling Original Body, but unfortunately, the interior space of the sacrificial tower is too confined for it.
“Human, stop running, give up.” Cangjin King transmitted his roar telepathically, relentlessly chasing from behind.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
His eyes occasionally emitted thick lightning bolts. Naturally, the lightning’s speed within the corridor far exceeded Luo Feng’s. When the lightning struck Luo Feng, it transformed into countless electric snakes forming an electric net, as if bound by countless ropes, greatly affecting Luo Feng’s speed. After struggling free desperately, Cangjin King’s second wave of obstruction arrived immediately.
One lightning bolt after another…
It made Luo Feng suffer greatly!
“If it weren’t for this corridor environment, I would have already created distance from him. As long as the distance is far enough, that lightning couldn’t even touch me.” Luo Feng’s wings trembled desperately as he fled.
“Truly capable of escaping.” Cangjin King kept chasing behind.
He kept affecting Luo Feng, only managing to maintain the distance without being left behind, which also made Cangjin King feel very sad.
…
The two of them chased each other, and behind Cangjin King, Zizhong King was also continuously pursuing.
“Cangjin King is indeed ruthless. He used Night Chen King’s hand to kill Bingren.” Zizhong King’s eyes flashed with cold light. “I, Bingren, and he, Cangjin King, are all from the Machine Race camp. Within the same camp, we dare not kill each other. Once we kill each other, especially if it is synchronized and transmitted to the virtual world… we will be collectively hunted down by the Machine Race camp, and we won’t be able to escape.”
“So…”
“Cangjin King wants to monopolize the treasure but dares not act personally.”
“Now that Bingren has perished, it was actually Cangjin King using another’s knife to kill.” Zizhong King secretly resented. “Hmph, no matter what, he only managed to kill by using another’s knife. He still dares not directly confront comrades from the same camp. Besides, I’m not Bingren… even if Hu Ci King and others self-destruct, I will not perish.”
“Cangjin King, you want to monopolize the treasure? Hmph…” Zizhong King’s mind flashed with one idea after another.
Being comrades from the same camp doesn’t necessarily mean having deep bonds; it’s only due to military discipline that they dare not kill each other. Violating military regulations… not only would the supreme powerhouses from the Machine Race intervene, but even the supreme beings from Cangjin King’s own clan would emerge to execute him.
…
Luo Feng, Cangjin King, and Zizhong King flew along the corridor, each having different intentions.
“The front is the core area exit.” Luo Feng tried his best to escape.
Swish!
With a flash of shadow, Luo Feng arrived in front of the core area exit. The six channels were still open, but to Luo Feng’s surprise… at the exit of the channel, there floated a powerful alien immortal with six arms wearing purple armor. He was emitting waves of divine power, completely blocking the exit of the channel.
“Native of the Yan Ji Continent?” Luo Feng was greatly shocked when he saw his appearance, but at this moment, there was no time to be surprised.
“Move aside!” Luo Feng roared and rushed out.
“Whoosh!”
This powerful alien immortal with six arms suddenly stretched and enlarged his arms, blocking all six channels. When Luo Feng rushed toward one channel… one of those arms was truly a single man guarding against a thousand, and the enlarged super-large palm directly slapped Luo Feng backward.
“Haha, native of the Yan Ji Continent? Thank you very much indeed.” Cangjin King laughed loudly as he appeared, simultaneously transmitting his voice.
Swoosh!
Zizhong King also appeared.
Luo Feng, Cangjin King, and Zizhong King all stood on the ground, while that native of the Yan Ji Continent blocked the entire exit of the six channels, and his strength was truly at the peak of a King. Luo Feng might have an advantage in speed, but wanting to forcefully break through… his strength was indeed far inferior.
“Yang, who is this?” A streak of light flew from a distance—it was the Hu Ci King, soaring along another corridor. The Hu Ci King landed and stared at the native powerhouse in astonishment. “A native?”
Luo Feng, the Cangjin King, the Zizhong King, and the Hu Ci King—these four powerhouses exchanged glances before turning their gaze toward the native powerhouse.
“You scum of the Yanji Continent, having escaped the calamity of those years, how dare you show yourselves again?” roared the Cangjin King. The four powerful figures present all knew that discovering a remnant of the Yanji Continent could be reported, but the military system did not strictly enforce this requirement. Perhaps the matter of hunting down those remnants…
The military system had never considered it the responsibility of these warriors.
Moreover, the sacrificial tower contained treasures, and kings such as Cangjin and Zizhong did not wish to attract more powerful individuals.
“Dear enemies of other races.” The native powerhouse floating there was plump, his smile unsettling. “I truly wish for all of you to perish, but since you all seek to escape from this sacrificial tower, I have no choice but to appear. Allow me to introduce myself first—I am ‘Qiu Chika,’ a survivor of the Yan Ji Continent. Back then, my homeland suffered a catastrophic disaster. At that time, I was merely an ordinary immortal. Over countless years, the passage of time, though it has left me in profound solitude, has also granted me immense power.”
“Have you been here all along?”
Cangjin King, Zizhong King, Hu Ci King, and Luo Feng were all startled.
“Yes, I have been monitoring your every move inside the sacrificial tower all along.” Native Qiu Chika smiled, his grin eerily unsettling. “Originally, I intended to orchestrate… to have you kill each other as much as possible. Your other races annihilated my people back then—the more of you perish today, the better.”
“But I also want to obtain the token.”
“To think you actually took the tokens of the two fallen powerhouses.” Qiu Chika pointed at the Cangjin King from a distance.
King Cangjin slightly furrowed his brows; this native powerhouse actually knew he had taken the tokens, which seemed to confirm that he had indeed been monitoring the entire sacrificial tower.
“What do you want the token for?” Cangjin King shouted.
“You said you designed…” Luo Feng frowned. “Could it be that the treasure chamber…”
Zizhong King, Hu Ci King, and Cangjin King were all startled upon hearing.
“Smart.” Qiu Chika, the native, praised. “Among you outsiders, there’s finally a clever one, hahaha. I’ve been inside the sacrificial tower for a long time, and that treasure chamber has always been open… If there were truly any treasures, I would have taken them long ago. There’s no way I’d wait for you to claim them. Those three treasure chests… were just empty boxes. After all, you couldn’t detect it—they were tools designed to make you kill each other.”
“What!”
“Empty boxes?”
“For these empty boxes, Night Chen King and Bingren, two Kings, perished?” Hu Ci King growled lowly, while Cangjin King, Zizhong King, and Luo Feng were all shocked.
Everyone had been fighting fiercely for this treasure, with Cangjin King, Hu Ci King, and Zizhong King all injured and losing some immortal divine bodies.
“Human.” Native Qiu Chika looked at Luo Feng. “When you obtained those three treasure chests, you should have seen the text content. It clearly stated that only members of my race could open the chests, so naturally, I had already opened them and obtained part of the treasure, leaving empty chests to design you.”
“There was indeed such text content.” Both Luo Feng and Zizhong King frowned.
“Zizhong King, did you see that text content?” Cangjin King transmitted, and Zizhong King also transmitted back: “Yes, there was indeed such content. Moreover, when we discovered that chamber, the treasure chamber door was already open, and this native knows all our actions, obviously monitoring us all along. If he could monitor us, he must have known about that open treasure chamber long ago, and if there were treasures, he would have already taken them.”
“Indeed.” Cangjin King also agreed with this point.
“If you don’t believe me, you can take out a treasure chest for me, and I’ll open it for you to see.” Native Qiu Chika sneered.
“Yang, take out your treasure chest.” Cangjin King looked at Luo Feng.
“Take it out.” Zizhong King said.
Luo Feng frowned slightly but still flipped his hand and took out one of the treasure chests. This chest was covered with complex ritual secret patterns, and no matter how hard one tried, it couldn’t be opened by force. Luo Feng casually threw it over.
After Native Qiu Chika received it, he gently touched the edge of the treasure chest and easily clicked it open.
Cangjin King, Zizhong King, Luo Feng, and Hu Ci King all stared intently.
The box was empty, nothing inside.
“Empty treasure chest.” Cangjin King’s eyes were filled with anger. He growled lowly, “Damn it.” He had fought so hard that he even burned some of his immortal divine body, only to find out now that the treasure chest he fought for was empty. Although the chest’s material itself was somewhat valuable, to Cangjin King, it was practically worthless.
What he wanted was…
The treasure that belonged to a portion of the indigenous people of the Yanji Continent during their escape back then!
“Hahaha…” Native Qiu Chika laughed. “If this human hadn’t escaped quickly and was about to leave the core area, I wouldn’t have appeared. You killing each other, the more fiercely, the better.”
“If you hadn’t appeared, we wouldn’t have known you were here. Why did you appear now?” Cangjin King said lowly.
Luo Feng, Zizhong King, and Hu Ci King also stared at that native.
Native Qiu Chika cast a slightly disgusted glance at the four powerhouses and said, “You members of other races, if it weren’t for the real treasure in the sacrificial tower, I wouldn’t even bother with you.”
“Real treasure?” Luo Feng was secretly shocked.
Cangjin King, Zizhong King, etc., were also startled.
“Hahaha… You don’t think that a treasure chamber that can be destroyed even by a self-destruction of a peak King is hiding the real big treasure, do you?” Native Qiu Chika sneered. “You don’t think… that I, who have already obtained the treasure, would stay here with you wasting time and risking my life, do you?”
“Indeed.” Luo Feng, Cangjin King, Zizhong King, and Hu Ci King all realized suddenly.
The treasure of the clan’s heritage—could the protective chamber truly be so fragile?
“The treasure has both light and shadow,” said Native Qiu Chika coldly. “The light is the chamber you saw—indeed, there were treasures in the chests, but they were quite ordinary. As for the shadow… hidden there is the clan’s true treasure.”
“The Ming treasure can be opened by any member of my clan.”
“But the true great treasure within the Darkness requires not only being a member of our clan but also possessing the token to unlock it. Holding the token… is a mark of status; clan members without it are unworthy to access it,” said the native Qiu Chika. “Back when our clan fled, the Cosmic Reverends among us were also concerned about ordinary members falling under soul control. Thus, only those bearing the token could open the great treasure—and those who carried the token… were all Kings! Controlling the souls of Kings… is an exceedingly difficult task.”
Luo Feng, Cangjin King, Zizhong King, and Hu Ci King listened and nodded secretly.
They had to admit.
What this native said made a lot of sense, everything was logical.
“If you leave, I will never be able to get the real treasure. Without the token, I can’t open it, but without me, you other races with the token still can’t open it.” Native Qiu Chika looked at Luo Feng and them. “My requirement is simple, I want half of the big treasure!”
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